28 sulking which he is the leading authority on so I let things nde.\ll this Vi hile the base Ulllp Vias handing out spice drops to the infield frolll a good s:Ipply he had on hilll. .l\.s a tov' ' n dentist he can't see VoThy all the to do about a few cavities. Suffise it to say NIsVoTonger \vorked his way out of the hole and VoTt: tied the SCOre and then they VoTas a sudden shoVoTer VoT hich the way they perforlTIed I says they should ought to all go take any- VoTays includeing the 11lothel s. One VoToman listening to 11le dlsh it out in that vain said You 11luSt get a grate deal of compensation out of bossing a bunch of kids around and I sa\ s to her Lady no- body offered me a nickle tu do this and I would not c'\.cept it if they did. I couldn't hutton In} lip but went on to say that I liked working wIth boys if onl) I could get nd ot the full coopera- tion of the parents espesially the Vo T Olllen. Then the kid VoTith the will to faI]'s ITIother got Into the act to lTIY surprise. She VoTas eavesdropping on the rhubarb from the] ag w here she suddenly must of got her courage up because she says Evadently you are equally good at push- ing ladies around and do we deserve to sil vive as a race and I sa) s If you VoTel en't all ladies I would gIve you 11lY opinion of you in two words, blather skites. Then she Sï} S :\Jly husband VoTill wish to see you tnnl01 row or so and I says Send him around, haveing visions of being strode up to hy this guy in one theITI gaberdeen suits ..:\lice and being slapped across the chops with one thelll lether handbags that they carry. \Vhich ,vould at least hring the rhubarb up to the ITIan to ITI'ln level VoThere 1t belongs. .L-\ll this while we VoTere getting no dryer accept for the VoToman snug in the Jag. I ,vas between her and the first WOlllan \\ ith tVoTo out in the top of the third and tht SCOre tied ei2:ht all and a 11lan on ...... second. Then the first VoToman sa) s You certainly seem to have 3 lot of hidden hostilities and I sa} s '\ hat's hidden about thelll? and she didn't have no comeback. I 111ay of been a little sharp but ITIY job is hard enough wIthout a lot of b) stander going off II'i cocked about how it should ought to be done. Y\! ell with the raIn showing no signs of letting up the} VoTas nothing to do but call the gallle a tie to be played off later though VoTho picked up the 11larbles on the rhubarb I VoTill leave you to be the judge You knoVoT me ,AJice I don't VoTant nobody sticking their $0.02 into m)" affairs though I aITI perfectly willing to listen to any reasonable offer of advice even in this 11latriarky I think they call this type of cultul e. I agree VoTith you about the alllount of furnIture we should start off \vith IN McMORJAM: A.C., R..J.O., K.S. The sky widens to Cornwall. A sense of sea Hangs in the lichenous branches and still there's light. The road frolll its tunneJ of blackthorn rises free To a final height. And over the west is glowing a 11lackerel sky Whose opal fleece has faded to purple pink. In this hour of the late-lit, listening evening, why Do 11lY spirits sink? The tide is high and a sleepy Atlantic sends Exploring ripple on ripple down Polzeath shore And the gathering dark is full of the thought of frIends I VoTill see no 11lore. For where's Anne Channel, who loved this place the best, WIth her tense blue eyes, and her shopping bag fallIng apart And her racy gossip and 1920 zest, And that Vo T arlllth of heart? "'There's Roland easing hIs most unwieldy car, \Vith its load of golf clubs, backwards into the lane? \Vhere's Kathleen Stokes VoTith her Sealyhallls? There's DOOlll Bar. Bray Hill shoVoTs plain. For this is the turn, and the VoTell-known trees draw near. On the road their pattern in moonlight fades and swells As the engine stops, from tVoTo 11lIles off I hear St. Minver bells. "'That a host of stars in a VoTideness still and deep! \Vhat a host of souls, as a 11lotor bike whines aVoTay, And the silver snake of the estuary curls to sleep In Daymer Bay. . though why It should all be bird's eye 11laple I fail to see. I have always kind of had this feeling of 11lutual hostility toward bird's eye maple. More of this later. Yours, ED. Westport, C onn., July 2. D EAR ALICE: It's grate news your 11lother's hip is better and well enough for you to practIcally garantee you'll be here in a week. i\.ll as I can say is I'll be glad VoT hen we can get settled. But I VoTisht you could of been here VoTith 11le last night. As you know VoTe finally had this playoff of that tie gallle with the Bluejays which was also a gallle breaking a tie VoTith thelll for L4SZLO o fRESJ.i I ST AW8fRftIES __ .f . . , . . '!' -- . . p .... ,, V- I.. "'.J'f) D ir;, .(-:., !ÌJ'i . "1< \ , lj i. 11/, , '\ \\ " I/,\JI/ t l"V , '\IWI\ W ,f / ( ',I) n 11\1/111/, , ' I IX'11 (I/If ,I 1,/,1 I I}I I , "'-I'tH/ I ", -JOHN BETJEMAN . fourth place and brother! I never see such exitelllent. It was the 1110St sat;s- fying evening of 11lY life sports-wise. To begin with they VoTas no 11lothers around. They all went to the Mental Health Ball which is 11lore illlportant this year than ever before they tell 11le because of the VoThopping alllount that has to be raised. Mala justlllents are on the increase in all these COlll11l unities VoT here they take such an interest in their children's 11linds and organize their play and all for SOllle strange reason another. The guidance counselor VoTas chaIrlllan of the affair so he wasn't on hand neither. The dentist ulllped both plate and bases, doing so from the pitcher's box. WhIle he may be a firstrate dentist he could use a good èye doctor hisself judg- ing from SOllle thelll calls Alice. The kid with the thing about slidIng has got another thing about duckIng pitches It's the sallle thing really the VoTay they explain it. He has the sallle chance to drop beautifully putting on the sallle kind of show stirring up dust whIch he spanks off his uniforlll like one VoT ho